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| Shirshaf in Old City Sana'a |
This poor Arabian country is in the news a lot these days but even as analysts debate its future, new businesses have hope. Good luck to the new store called "Styled in Yemen"!
29 August 2010
Styling in Yemen
This poor Arabian country is in the news a lot these days but even as analysts debate its future, new businesses have hope. Good luck to the new store called "Styled in Yemen"!
28 July 2010
Stunning Photo
I just saw this photo on National Geographic MyShot. It's stunning--I need to convince Tweet to visit this wonder in Arabia!
The Morning After
Breaking news . . . it's a wedding!
Well it’s not really breaking news—this is wedding season in the Arabian Peninsula!
With Ramadan only a few weeks away, there is a rush to tie the knot. Apparently, there isn’t a prohibition on weddings during Ramadan; it’s just not that convenient to arrange.
The season means wedding halls are booked, so what is one to do if there’s no hall available? In Sanaa, Yemen, many families opt for the ultimate block party – street wedding tents. The tents are filled with groups of men who gather in celebration of the marriage by chewing the narcotic leaf known as qat. The tents get really warm but the tents lack the ACs one can find in the resort camp tents in Qatar. Fortunately Sanaa weather is incredible during the summer months when much of the Arabian Peninsula faces extremely warm temperatures. More importantly, Yemeni men prefer warm places as they enter the Elysian Fields of qat dreams. I've been told that the morning after the big chew day, which is usually Thursday, feels like the morning after a heavy metal act!
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| The back of a several meter-long wedding tent |
With Ramadan only a few weeks away, there is a rush to tie the knot. Apparently, there isn’t a prohibition on weddings during Ramadan; it’s just not that convenient to arrange.
The season means wedding halls are booked, so what is one to do if there’s no hall available? In Sanaa, Yemen, many families opt for the ultimate block party – street wedding tents. The tents are filled with groups of men who gather in celebration of the marriage by chewing the narcotic leaf known as qat. The tents get really warm but the tents lack the ACs one can find in the resort camp tents in Qatar. Fortunately Sanaa weather is incredible during the summer months when much of the Arabian Peninsula faces extremely warm temperatures. More importantly, Yemeni men prefer warm places as they enter the Elysian Fields of qat dreams. I've been told that the morning after the big chew day, which is usually Thursday, feels like the morning after a heavy metal act!
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| Inside the Wedding Tent on the "morning after" |
15 June 2010
Screen Shots and Other Bloopers, Part One
Been out of commission a bit here but have some humor today from my husband’s Arabian workplace.
Tweet is the kind of manager who likes for colleagues and employees to think through technological problems themselves in order to solve them. When they reach an impasse, he suggests they send him screen shots of the technical issue (Prt-Screen) and a brief update (text) on where they are/why stuck. (Tweet does the same with me by the way because he subscribes to the PEBCAK theory! If you haven’t heard of the PEBCAK theory that’ll be a future blog post for sure.)
Tweet is the kind of manager who likes for colleagues and employees to think through technological problems themselves in order to solve them. When they reach an impasse, he suggests they send him screen shots of the technical issue (Prt-Screen) and a brief update (text) on where they are/why stuck. (Tweet does the same with me by the way because he subscribes to the PEBCAK theory! If you haven’t heard of the PEBCAK theory that’ll be a future blog post for sure.)
12 April 2010
Yes, I Like Camels!
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| Camel herd with (rare?) baby white camel |
As a young girl, I actually used to play with my Barbie and Ken dolls (I admit to having them), creating all kinds of adventures for them as they traveled around distant places. I remember having a fairly elaborate script with them and some camels and Arabians traversing the Western Sahara and even the Arabian Peninsula. These adventures must have been “created” after I watched the film Lawrence of Arabia.
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